Society

An Out-of-Control Court An Out-of-Control Court

Unchastened by the widespread denunciation of their election decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative bloc seems determined to continue using its one-vote majority to ram throu...

Mar 8, 2001 / Herman Schwartz

When Ignorance Is Bliss When Ignorance Is Bliss

I have eaten more than my share of Whoppers in my forty-one years. As a teenager I liked them so much I'd worry about whether I could afford another one while still eating the fi...

Mar 8, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Black-White Wealth Gap The Black-White Wealth Gap

Net worth, more than any other statistic, shows the depth of racial inequality.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Dalton Conley

Whodunit–the Media? Whodunit–the Media?

It's easy to blame cartoons for gun-toting kids. But the truth isn't so tidy.

Mar 8, 2001 / Feature / Maggie Cutler

Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election

The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning.       ...

Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack

Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own

I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.       --Michel Foucau...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity

Retour du Socialisme? Retour du Socialisme?

Paris Will Paris become the first large city in France (indeed, the first major city or national capital anywhere in the world) to elect an openly gay candidate as mayor--the S...

Mar 1, 2001 / Frédéric Martel

Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two

If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...

Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

Plan Colombia Plan Colombia

Wrong issue, wrong enemy, wrong country.

Mar 1, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Bosnian Women Witness Bosnian Women Witness

About a year and a half ago I received a book from Bosnia. Its title was I Begged Them to Kill Me. It was a collection of some forty accounts by Muslim women who were raped, mostl...

Mar 1, 2001 / Slavenka Drakulic

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